Arlington and Mansfield were collectively granted about $162,000 in state funds to address concerns about trash and litter.

The City of Houston is spending $2 million on outside help to pick up trash. Other advocates say the city needs to be spending vastly more, namely by implementing a solid waste fee.

Residents will pay an extra $83 annually starting next spring as waste trucks travel farther to new Axtell facility ...

The driver of a trash truck in Anna had to dump an entire load of garbage onto a residential street to "prevent a larger disaster" after the load caught fire Thursday. According to city officials, at ...

Like plenty of other Houstonians, you may have needed to call 311 to report missed trash and recycling pickups. But you may not have realized why our waste system feels broken. Houston is the only ...

Hiro Technologies Co-Founder Miki Agrawal poses with a diaper and a pouch full of plastic-eating fungi at her company’s laboratory, in Austin AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -Could baby poop and fungi work ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - To meet the American demand for recycled bottles, cans, and other materials, companies in the US are importing refuse from different countries. “We estimate, because of the lack ...

More than 30 million tires have reached the end of the road amid the pine forests of northeastern Texas. And state environmental officials are worried. The decaying rubber once intended for recycling ...